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- 1991
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 37 m
- 1991
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Slacker presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits using a series of linear vignettes.
Directed By: Richard Linklater
Written By: Richard Linklater
- 1991
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 37 m
- 1991
- R
- Orion Classics
- 1 h 37 m
Slacker
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Summary Slacker presents a day in the life in Austin, Texas among its social outcasts and misfits using a series of linear vignettes.
Directed By: Richard Linklater
Written By: Richard Linklater
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 16 Critic Reviews
69
88% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
0% Mixed
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13% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
The movie never loses its affectionate, shaggy-dog sense of America as a place in which people, by now, have almost too much freedom on their hands.
This unconventional film will offend anyone looking for a plot, but Linklater's smart observations speak volumes.
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User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 26 User Ratings
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Linklater's control seems all but invisible here. But this kind of stylistic lucidity can only be the result of determined calculation and planning. The kind of happy accidents he captures don't come about by accident.
Slacker is not always so purposefully creepy, but it's often as darkly funny; none of its characters is what you'd call normal, but the film's off-kilter view is such that they seem utterly in tune with their odd lives and odder times. [29 May 1992, p.5]
Linklater`s creation is delightfully daffy-far better, as one of the slackers puts it, than a sharp stick in the eye.
The members of Mr. Linklater's cast, most of whom are non-professionals, are so amazingly effective that it's hard to believe they didn't make up their own lunacies.
Aside from preserving these folks for a presumably grateful posterity and convincingly depicting Austin as an open-air lunatic asylum, Slacker does not offer much to anyone who likes to stay awake.
